Happy August!!!
i had lunch with my friend liz this afternoon. since my co-workers were out making deliveries and construction was being done in the office, i had to get out for awhile. i took a long lunch. we met up in oakland chinatown and had lunch at abc cafe. she came by my office afterwards, i showed her around and we caught up some more. i love catching up with liz. there's a lot of honesty and anything goes attitude. it was funny because we just kept talking and talking, and she had to run errands, so i walked her out to her car, and every 10 steps or so, we'd stop, talk for another 5 minutes, walk, stop, bullsh!t some more, walk, stop talk and this lasted for almost 20 minutes. haha, hella funny. it was very cool tho, *thanks for meeting up with me liz!*
had dinner at the jjjj household tonight, and dana counted the months til parkin and my wedding... 9 months! *holy bijeezuz* i haven't even started looking for dresses, am i waiting too long? our weekends are packed tho, and i won't even have time on the weekends until september. maybe i'll leave work on some fridays and get to some shops.
anyways, it was a good dinner, lots of variety. tacos, nachos, burritos, rice noodles, flat noodles, egg rolls, shrimp rolls, and i made avocado rolls and spam musabi. i was stuffed. we all were. yum
oo, on wednesday night, i met parkin and his parents at macy's and we picked out a new mattress! i am so stoked! the salesman was ok, nice and all, but not as knowledgeable as i would have liked. oh well, we knew enough about the mattress to know that we're gonna love it. the only dilemma i was having was whether or not the bed is going to be too high cuz we had the option of getting a lower boxspring, but whenever i pointed out a height from a sample bed, the guy kept saying, 'more or less that high' and i'd point to another one, and the same reply, 'more or less' :/ out of all of the samplies on display, i would think that he could find one and say, 'yeah, it's this height.' oh well. i'm being a brat.
so parkin's dad opened a macy's account, we got additional savings, we bought a comfortor, duvet cover and 2 standard pillows. my mom told me to get a lot more like sheets and king size pillows and she'd pay them back, but macy's doesn't have 'eastern king' size sheets and their king pillows sucked. we're getting an eastern king bed, i'm so excited! an eastern king bed has the dimensions of 78 by 80, and a california king is 72 by 84, for the longer folks out there like cindy and matty. :D our new mattress is going to be square like, wider but the same length as his now queen sized futon. i'll have soooo much room to spread out without having to worry about bumping into parkin. ahhhh, i can't wait for the delivery on the 10th. we just need to hurry and get sheets in time, but selina said that bed bath & beyond sells eastern king sheets, although they are a bit pricier. that's ok. we'll just get a set for now and register for more on our registry! hehee
my mom already got parkin and i 'chinese sheets' for our bed for our wedding night, *good luck for making babies, hopefully a boy first to carry on family name* and that's why we had to get the 2 standard pillows. we can't use them yet, and i guess my mom or someone will set the bed up for us for either the wedding night, or our first night together as husband and wife in that house. it's gold tho. when my brother got married last year, she gave him and selina the red set. *darn* not too excited about seeing the gold. i'm more of a silver/platinum girl myself, but my mom was thoughtful to have gotten the sheets so far in advance... but what if i wasn't ever going to get married?
and on the subject of marriage, my co-worker said something to me that sounded a bit odd to me. she's getting married this october with my boss. he's rich, he bought her a mercedez, bought a house for them, provides for her, blah blah blah. anyways, they'd been dating a year and he popped the question. she said yes, but months later decided that she needed to think about it, went to vietnam for a month or two to visit family, and came back and resumed their engagement and planned the wedding. (he's always wanted his banquet at the rincon, and she's not too happy about it because it's suppose to be 'the bride's' special day but she succumbed) when we talk about relationships, she doesn't usually mention rob with love, it's more like she expresses how fortunate she was to have rob, and that no man has ever taken care of her like rob does. anyways, we were talking about wedding plans, bridesmaids and such. she mentioned that she had friends who asked her to be bridesmaids, (she already has 9) and she had to say no. so she started telling me that a lot of her friends wanted to be a bridesmaid because they weren't married and wanted to be part of her marriage. this is the thing she said that made me think: "i'm so lucky to be having a wedding, a lot of people spend their lives wanting one, i'm lucky to be having one." *cock head to the side and raise one eyebrow* i wonder if i took it out of context, but to me, it's not about having a wedding, it's about being lucky to find a man that i love and can't live without. it's not about the church, the reception and everyone attending, it's knowing that i get to spend the rest of my life with parkin, the man i fell in love with. the wedding ceremony, banquet and getting to share our day with family and friends is just icing on the cake.
i totally could have taken her comment out of context, it's just the way that she said it that made me wonder about her intentions, tho they not be any concern of mine. just saying. ;)
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